Ukraine: Kharkiv under repeated attack on 1,500th day of war

# By International News Service Still burning after two previous assaults, the Italian industrial city of Milan was bombed again early today by large formations of British bombers which, according to Swiss reports, ignited new fires visible in Lugano, 15 miles away. Observers on the British coast said the attacking force took two hours to pass over the English Channel en route to Italy. The British raiders met large forces of American Flying Fortresses, Thunderbolts, and Spitfires returning from evening offensive sweeps that included attacks on five enemy airfields in France and one in Holland. Attacking in darkness for the first time in Western Europe, the Fortresses concentrated on enemy flying fields at Polk, Amiens, Vitry-en-Artois, Lille and Merville in France and at Vlissingen in Holland. **Attack England** German planes retaliated during the night with attacks on Southern England, where two coastal towns were bombed in the light of flares dropped by the Nazi planes. Some damage and casualties were reported. Two of the raiders were shot down. In Sicily, Axis forces fled so rapidly towards evacuation ports that Allied ground forces, impeded by mines, were unable to maintain contact with the enemy. Meanwhile Allied planes and warships pounded evacuation craft in the Messina Straits and enemy positions on both the Sicilian and Italian mainland shores. On the blazing Russian front, Red Army troops battled the German rear guard in the streets of Khar-